In a fraction of a second the existence existed? Cosmic Inflation!

Scientists are struggling to find out how this universe existed and consequently how we existed.
They are talking now about a map assembled from 15 months' worth of data and showing an exquisite confirmation of our Big-Bang model for the origin and evolution of the Universe.

It details what is known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB - a faint glow of long wavelength radiation that pervades all of space.

Its precise configuration, visible in the new Planck data, is suggestive of a cosmos that is slightly older than previously thought - one that came into existence 13.82 billion years ago i.e an increase of about 50 million years on earlier calculations. This map also shows a slight more matter and slight less energy which is driving the cosmos apart at an accelerating rate.

They are saying that the Universe started in a hot, dense state in a tiny space then expanded and cooled. This supports the idea of INFLATION which suggests that in the very first moments of its existence the Universe opened up in an exponential manner faster than light itself.
This idea of Inflation turned to a breakthrough in the research of scientists and announced by a team used a telescope at South Pole to make detailed observations of a small patch sky. This project is called BICEP2.
Inflation theory suggests that the cosmos experienced a massive growth spurt in its first trillionth of a trillions of a trillions of a second. Then Space continued to expand for about 14 billion years and still expanding.

Some scientists believe that this discovery of the inflationary epoch, opened a window on the mysterious dark energy, and gave some lights on how the infant Universe was transformed from mere quantum fluctuations into something of microscopic size after its birth and how space time expanded inؤridibly and rapidly, ballooning outward faster than the speed of light. That ancient light which began saturating the \universe hundreds of thousands years after the Big Bang. It is believed that before this time the |Universe was a sizzling fog of plasma and energy too hot for photons to travel freely.

The microwave background temperature is the same at different spots in the sky, and this would have remained a mystery if the cosmic inflation did not tell us that our whole sky came from this tiny region.

The spectacular expansion of the Universe during inflation produced gravitational waves which in turn generated th B modes according to the theory of the Smoking Gun which is a type of polarization in the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background).

However scientists still do not know what is the substance that propelled inflation and till it is know the Universe remain a dark matter or what they scientifically called it Dark Energy.

Sami Cherkaoui

Evil Politics & Politicians

Halloween ... is a retrieval of evil or so they say ....
In the Middle East .... Evil was and still is seeding there...
With a quick view on how the "World" dealt with the Region before, we can clearly see how they are re-writing the history of this "sensitive" region.
 
The Middle East was and still is the historical origin of major religions.
This means continuous struggles between Good & Evil!
Continuous conspiracies, wars, bloodshed and of-course racism, fanaticism, ignorance, idiocy ... you name it.

Throughout its history the Middle East has been a major center of world affairs; a strategically, economically, politically, culturally, and religiously sensitive area, however all these criteria were fora securing an unstable future for Arab countries and |Islamic countries in the region such as Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. 
The earliest civilizations, Mesopotamia  and ancient Egypt, originated in the Fertile Crescent and Nile Valley regions of the ancient Near East, as well as the civilizations of the Levant, Persia, and Arabian Peninsula.
The Arab Caliphates of the Middle Ages, or Islamic Golden Age, that would first unify the entire Middle East as a distinct region and create the dominant ethnic identity that persists today.

The Turkic Seljuk, Ottoman and Safavid empires would later dominate the region.

The Seljuk and later Ottoman Empires  were medieval  Sunni Muslim empires, that  controlled vast areas stretching from the Hindu Kush to eastern Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf. Later the Ottoman expansion reached West Mediterranean, north and East Europe.

The Safavids ruled the greatest Iranian Empire since the Islamic conquest of Persia and established the school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in the history of Islam.

Despite their demise in 1736, the Safavids have left their mark down to the present era by establishing and spreading Shi'a Islam in major parts of the Caucasus and West Asia, especially in Iran.

Most of Arab countries were once occupied by the Turks, and Ottoman rules were established in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon Etc..

In the aftermath of the war, the Arabs found themselves freed from centuries of Ottoman Sultanate rule, but under the mandate colonial rule of France and the United Kingdom.

 

When Hussein declared himself King of the Hejaz, he also declared himself King of all Arabs (malik bilad-al-Arab).

This aggravated his conflict with Ibn Saud, with whom he had fought before WWI on the side of the Ottomans in 1910.

Two days after the Turkish Caliphate was abolished by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on March 3, 1924, Hussein declared himself Caliph.

The claim to the title had a mixed reception, and he was soon ousted and driven out of Arabia by the Saudis, a rival clan that had no interest in the Caliphate. Saud defeated Hussein in 1924.

Hussein continued to use the title of Caliph when living in Trans-Jordan.

Another important incident was building up in the region. When in1897 Theodore Herzl established the Zionist Movement, he was actually encouraging Jews around the world, to re-establish their national state, within Palestine. 

 

 

He called on all Jews to immigrate to the territory. Turkey banded the Jewish Immigration but later eased its rule under enormous pressure from Europe.

By the end of the First World War, Great Britain had the British Mandate for Palestine. The issuance of the Balfour Declaration greatly increased the immigration of Jews to Palestine. In 1947, Great Britain decided to turn its Mandate over to the United Nations, which, in the same year, adopted Resolution 181, partitioning the land into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.

 The Jewish community agreed to the partition, but Arab countries and Palestinian Arabs did not, resulting in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the first in a series of wars fought between Israel and the Arab world. 

 

The French made few concessions to Arab nationalism, and rejected draft treaties, intensifying their grip on Syria and Lebanon.

 

In Egypt nationalist agitation after World War I led Britain to proclaim that country an independent monarchy under King Fuad I (1868-1936). The British, however, still retained the right to station troops there.

 

In Iran the Shah was unwilling to give up his traditional powers, and the British and Russians were unwilling to give up their spheres of influence. During World War I, therefore, they both stationed troops in an ostensibly neutral Persia.

 

At the end of World War I, the League of Nations granted the area to the United Kingdom as a mandate. It initially formed two former Ottoman vilayets (regions): Baghdad and Basra into a single country in August 1921. Five years later, in 1926, the northern Vilayet of Mosul was added, forming the territorial boundaries of the modern Iraqi state.

 

The League of Nations granted Class A mandates for the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon and British Mandate of Mesopotamia and Palestine.

Parts of the Ottoman Empire on the Arabian Peninsula became what is today Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

 

During the mandate, British colonial administrators ruled the country, and through the use of British armed forces, suppressed Arab and Kurdish rebellions against the occupation. They established the Hashemite king, Faisal, who had been forced out of Syria by the French, as their client ruler.

Likewise, British authorities selected Sunni Arab elites from the region for appointments to government and ministry offices.

 

What is happening today, despite all sorts of disguising this matter is a clear reflect of a deadly past. What differs today that the internal conflict between the same people is not only between the Christians and Muslims, but also between the different Muslim Sects and the different Christians sects... each of them against each other,

In the past, when the people were engaged with their religious and political fighting, and all the chaos that was spread all over the lands, the League of  Nations were able to eliminate a whole country called Palestine at that time and replaced it with a new country called Israel.

 

The region began to see series of "military coups" and more rulers toppled and new rulers came to rule,,, till the people of Egypt revolt against their King "Farouk" in 1952 and a new Era began with President Nasser who completed the revolution task and took back Suez Canal from the French and the British.

This action put Israel in Jeopardy. So the three states (France, Britain and Israel) declared war against Egypt in 1956, but was not supported as it should, by the United States. USA at that time had a different Agenda, and was emerging as a new rich and strong power, and wanted to befriend the Arab Gulf rulers when oil discoveries in their lands were announced. USA also was the sole creditor of the three states together, after being almost bankrupted after WW2.

Egypt won the war and resumed control on Suez Canal and its revenues.

Later in 1967 USA supported Israel to win territories in Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel took Jerusalem and made it the Capital of Israel. Also took Golan Heights in Syria, and most of Bilad Al Sham was under its surveillance. It also took Sina and secured its South front.  However, it failed to secure passage to its trade through Suez Canal. And this was Israel main concern till it is fulfilled through a Peace accord reached through President Sadat after he won a 1973 war against Israel. They say Israel agreed to pay such high price for this purpose only; sailing through Suez Canal.

 

Then USA worked systematically in the region to eliminate all dangers that are surrounding Israel. It declared war against Saddam Husein, because he was no more trusted as a "Peaceful Tyrant" and failed in a test with Kuwait.

It occupied Afghanistan to control the spread of "Sunni Extremists" and use this with their political and military dispute with Iran.

 

It supported the topple of Bin Ali in Tunis and Qaddafi in Libya by their own people, however it left the people to handle a bigger struggle with each other.

 

It permitted the topple of Mubarak in Egypt, but left Egypt with a new experience that was threatening to make Egypt weaker, and ready to accept any sort of solution for stability.

When President Morsi was toppled by the support of the Egyptian army, the whole influence of USA in the region was at stake. Iran grabbed this momentum, and put a moderate leader that managed to reach in a short time a kind of understanding with the Americans that angered the Saudis.

What is going on in Syria today, may be considered as a tough revenge against Assad himself, because he did not completely go along with USA plans in the region and perhaps tried to take more than what he was supposed to have.  USA probably does not wish to give Lebanon as a price to Assad after his strong support to Iran and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah was a strong card to Iran, and a wild card to USA. However after its military involvement in Syria, it seems the end of its era has begun, with an OK from Iran. Assad had once this wild card, but lost this "privilege" somehow, when he was pushed to put his country in a civil war crisis.

 

All what is going on today in the Arab countries is actually a bloody dialogue between the super powers and USA, (with Europe against USA “full success” from behind the scenes), with Iran, Turkey and Israel being the "willing" tools, that seem to do anything for the sake of having their "past powers back".

 

 

 

Sadly, it does not really matter to USA what will happen to Egypt and Syria, or how long their agonies take. Because USA, is almost the only international country, which has a physical existence in the heart of the Middle East: militarily (in Afghanistan and Israel), Politically (In Iraq and Israel) and economically (In Arab Gulf States and Israel).

 

 

 

The longest times Syria and Egypt remain in their agonies, the best it is for Israel. Because both countries are the direct powers that can give real threats to Israel, after the Palestinians have already passed this "fighting each other" game successfully and they are now of no stratigic threat to Israel.

The question of Hezbollah in Lebanon can be solved and probably all Hezbollah would be dissolved with an understanding between Iran and USA.

The Panoramic View on the region is getting clearer, and we can almost see the divided states.

Also we can see a more secured Israel and more weak Arab States and a more hesitant Iran.

 

Despite all "Genevas" proposed meetings whether they happened or not, we will see more Weapons to countries in the region to keep them engaged in ethnic fighting.
Iran will be so busy in this war, and will forget about its nuclear program ...
Turkey will find more internal troubles and disturbances.
Rich Arab countries will pour money to find safety.
Israel will wash its hands from any peace arrangements with the Palestinians.
USA and the super powers will interfere again and as usual, to find solutions between friends, enemies and allies.

And these solutions must be in favour of everybody except the victims.

Who can say this is not Evil Politics? And who can say that those politicians who are running the game are not Evil Politicians?

Sami Cherkaoui

USA to hit Syria without hurting Assad?

What a puzzle!


Russia in its turn and own terms, put a different puzzle ...!
The Russians are saying that they will not intervene against any US/European military action on Syria!
Who can understand why?

Who can solve these puzzles?
I give up .......

In their defense, President Obama, his consultants and allies, say that they want to paralyze Assad's hands, and make sure he can not use chemical weapons against his people, although they admit they have LITTLE doubt he did that!

Well, I believe they are honest about this. However it seems this is not the only reason.
As these "military actions" (if ever happen in this sense), may mean that both, Assad and the oppositions in Syria, are having extreme pressures on them, to keep fighting using only conventional weapons!
Consequently, this may be a strong message that no one is allowed to win NOW.

If this is true and the bloody battles in Syria keep going on, and more lives keep falling down! then we have to ask the never answered question.  WHY?

I regret to say that, with such Rulers, Opposition Leaders, Governments, Administrations, Etc.. who have the means and powers to control our lives, I can only see more innocent victims killed in Syria for a long time ahead, by all those who are using guns to solve political problems, including the international players!

With the disturbances and instabilities in other Arab countries; Iraq, Tunis, Yemen, Egypt, Lebanon .... I sincerely hope that these kind of killings in Syria do not spread around.



Of-course Israel is safe in this dilemma .... till now.

Sami Cherkaoui

Diagnostics USA?

Internationally, it seems that the USA is suffering from multiple diseases mainly; Bipolar Syndrome, Auto Immune disorder and Schizophrenia.

It is also approaching a level of extreme low confidence and fear of a rebelling era against it.

Probably this is why the USA Administration released CIA documents that detail its role in toppling 60 years ago, the Iranian Prime Minister at the time Dr. Mohammad Mossadaq for favor of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return to the country as Shah Iran. 

Perhaps they did this in a desperate attempt to remind people in the Middle East especially Egypt, and the World in general, that they can do whatever they want. 

Despite the fact that revealing those documents can be considered as a strong message to the world, it also may be explained as a sign that USA is starting to doubt its World Power. 

Because it seems that USA itself is having problems in believing that it is still able to enforce whatever it wants on the world, mainly in the Middle East Region. And probably this is why they are suffering from all these diseases!!

Also, may be the new dog in the White House was brought recently, so perhaps the USA can review new tactics how to enforce obedience .... since they see themselves the only HUMANS in this world.

Anyways, this would teach us a 2 solid facts:

1- Regardless of what USA Administration is in power they have One LOVE and that is to Israel and the Jews. And One Hatred and that is to Arabs and Muslims in general.

2- That USA has not actually revealed CIA documents, but rather revealed its Ugly Face of Democracy.

Sami Cherkaoui

Egypt jeopardizes USA Plans in Middle East

Ironically, USA is presently pushing against the will of the Egyptian People, by restlessly defending the Muslim Brothers, and by trying to restore their power, despite the ugly offenses this group is practicing in Egypt, against the civil people, the military, the governmental buildings and institutes, the infrastructure of the country and its National Security!

USA support of democracy changed dramatically in Egypt to support militia groups came to power a year ago by a non clear election results! Some say that a deal was struck then by USA and Muslim Brothers, in which the latter promised to establish a peaceful environment to Israel on the Gaza and Sinai borders!

When the Muslim Brothers came to power, it was crystal clear that they were building their own political, military and social system. They repeatedly deprived other political groups to share with them a new system or regime. The Muslim Brothers through their expelled President Mursi, also refused any other party or individual to be an integral part of this new regime, outside their own party except their closest allies.

This led to  massive manifestations, and almost half the population of Egypt occupied the streets to demonstrate their strongest rejections to the President and his party the Muslim Brothers.

The Egyptian Army understood the message of the people and offered to be an intermediary between the people and the President and his party.

However, the President refused to change any of his previous bills and decisions, and chose to face the opposition with his party by any means.

The Egyptian Army gave a week to the President to listen to the voice of people and solve the crisis before it comes ugly. When this warning was completely rejected, the Army expelled the President and appointed a temporary Acting President who in turn selected a temporary Government with a sole purpose to re-write the Constitution by neutral legislators, to reach a general election and eventually election of a new president.

The Muslim Brothers rebelled violently in the streets of the country, and started to attack the civilians and military soldiers and attack every government and police building.

More-over, suddenly a serious spread of arms appeared in the hands of the Muslim Brothers, and they are using in street fights against the police and military units as well as the civilians, what is causing several victims dead and injured every day.

This is a brief picture about what is happening now in Egypt.

On the political side, the world was split in opinions between pro and against the step that was taken by the Army.

Surprisingly USA and Europe were the strongest opponents to the Egyptian Army and the strongest supporter to the Expelled President and his party the Muslim Brothers.

Well this is also surprising in the sense that USA and Europe are "supposedly" against the Muslim Brothers and their allies who are fighting the Assad Regime in Syria side by side with the Free Syrian Army. And because of them USA and Europe are hesitating to supply the Free Syrian Army with sufficient weaponry that can allow them to balance the military arms with the Syrian Army.?

This can be a real puzzle. But let us dig more and see why USA is doing what is doing in the Middle East. Or in other words; why they want the Middle East always a shaky land, like what is happening in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and now Egypt.

To be able to answer this question, we have to understand it first. And to understand it we have to look at what USA wants in the Middle East? Then immediately we can see the word Israel pops out.

When USA spoke during the War on Iraq about a New Middle East, it seemed then that such plan was ready, but interrupted when Obama came to power?

With Obama's second term, it looks that this plan can be safe to be "tried", since Obama can be blamed personally if it failed.

And it seems that the Plan is based on the a assumption that the people in the Middle East are all religious extremists or at least 70% of them!

And on the assumption that those extremists are split into Sunnis and Shiites, and they will have eventually enough political, geographical and demographic space to fight upon.

And on the assumption that those extremists can come to power and be able to control the other extremists from Al Qaeda and other similar sects.

And on the assumption that Iran and Hezbollah will be engaged negatively with those new rulers in the territory and calm down on Israel.

And on the assumption that if all the above assumptions are realized, then "supposedly" Israel will enjoy Peace with the neighboring countries including Lebanon.

It seems that the USA plan with its assumptions, was working fine till a month ago, when in few days the Egyptian Army together with the Egyptian People expelled the Muslim Brothers' President, and crack down on all Muslim Brothers leaders and their established civil commotion quarters in the streets of Cairo.

Yesterday, the Egyptian Army Leader, Abdel Fattah Sisi, clearly said that the USA's threats in cutting their military and economic supports on Egypt will mean nothing and will not make the Egyptian People Back Up.

Well, this may prolong the instability in Egypt and can mean more bloodshed!! However it also means that USA has its first slap on the face, and the Arabs need only someone to slap first and they will take it from there...

This reminds me of the USA strategy of the so called "Arab Spring". It started in Tunis and then spread to Libya, Syria, Egypt etc... And proved to be a complete failure to the people who came to power after the "Spring" and also to the USA and its supporters, because they are not able till now to control what they have created.

(May be this can make understand why Iraq is still a messy state!)

But would this be a promising success to the other countries that are opposing the USA plans in the Middle East? Or a promising success to the Egypt?

Or would this be a cause to a direct war between the super powers?

Or a war between Israel and Egypt?

Or a war between Iran and its neighboring Gulf countries?

Or a war between Hezbollah and Israel?

Or

Would this be a step for a new understanding of the American Administration, to the Arabs mainly and to the Muslims in general and also to the Christians in the Middle East?

I certainly hope so, because I feel that if USA stops igniting the threads of discrimination, and stop playing on the religious differences, they can at least gain from the territory. So far they are in a complete loss.

Sami Cherkaoui

Era Of Many Faces To Rome And Nero

On a sunny day Nero burnt Rome...

 

 Great Fire Of Rome

His mother Agrippina, was exiled by her brother emperor Caligula.
Her uncle Claudius brought her back, after he took hold of the empire and married her.
Agrippina poisoned Claudius and Nero became the emperor at age of 16.
Nero few years later murdered his mother.
He wanted to destroy huge parts of Rome, so he would be able to build his dream palaces.
When the Senate rejected his plans... He burnt down most of Rome.

 

 Nero's Torch

Well, how this reminds me of the present days.
How many Nero(s) we see today, and how many Rome(s)
And how many different history books we read every day.

How many other forms of Nero have been evolved; Rulers, Leaders of Opposition Parties, Resistance Movements etc... All willing to burn half of the planet so they can feel secured.
How many countries and states are burnt today like Rome... By Nero(s)

 

 Pakistan

Perhaps for different reasons....but same disaster.

Since this life began on earth, every now and then there were different Nero(s).

Most of them burnt countries for reasons of power and religion.

Recently, they all live in the same time....
What is ironic that all Nero(s) of these days; call them the contradicted powers, are united to destroy and burn places cities, countries..
Each Nero for its own devilish reasons and desires.

Darfur

So, what are the roots of all these Rome(s) and Nero(s)?
Why (Rome) has to be burnt continuously without any serious attempts to extinguish the fires?
Why (Nero) has to keep the fires on, no matter how long it takes, how many places it wipes out and how many lives it kills.

 

Iraq

What is the value of civilizations?Where are their norms?
What is the value of human life?
What is the extent of its cost?

Lebanon

Who buys and sells human lives?
What is the price of people?
Who have those trading rights?
What is the real price of peace in local and international markets?

Gaza

Who put these estimates?
Do they have the real knowledge that enable them evaluate Lands and People?
When they decide to sell Lands and People, to whom and why?

Syria

When Nations would decide to wake up and decide to turn all tables upside down and take their matters in their own hands?

Will there be a time when we can see Nero(s) vanish and Rome(s) flourish?

Who can answer these question?

Sami Cherkaoui